Suleman Ahmad
Research Engineer
Suleman is a Research Engineer working at the intersection of product engineering and security research. His work and academic experience has span the following areas of interest: Security and Privacy, Internet Measurement, and Applied Machine Learning — particularly applications in Cybersecurity, and Distributed Systems.
Prior to joining Cloudflare, he completed his Masters program in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison. There he focused on detecting and analyzing real-world authentication attacks, and engineering large-scale measurement systems.
Research Areas
Internet Measurement, Network Privacy, Distributed Systems, Cryptography Engineering
Projects
Publications
2024Topaz: Declarative and Verifiable Authoritative DNS at CDN-Scale
ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference, Sydney NSW Australia, August 4-8, 2024.
James Larisch,
Tim Alberdingk Thijm,
Suleman Ahmad,
Peter Wu,
Tom Arnfeld,
Marwan Fayed
2022Gossamer: Securely Measuring Password-based Logins
31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22), Boston, MA. 2022.
Marina Sanusi Bohuk,
Mazharul Islam,
Suleman Ahmad,
Michael Swift,
Thomas Ristenpart,
Rahul Chatterjee
2022Respect the ORIGIN! A Best-case Evaluation of Connection Coalescing
ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022, October 25-27, France. 2022.
Sudheesh Singanamalla,
Talha Paracha,
Suleman Ahmad,
Jonathan Hoyland,
Luke Valenta,
Yevgen Safronov,
Peter Wu,
Andrew Galloni,
Kurtis Heimerl,
Nick Sullivan,
Christopher A. Wood,
Marwan Fayed
Blog posts
- How we prevent conflicts in authoritative DNS configuration using formal verification
- Introducing Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster
- Introducing Automatic SSL/TLS: securing and simplifying origin connectivity
- Cloudflare now uses post-quantum cryptography to talk to your origin server
- Connection coalescing with ORIGIN Frames: fewer DNS queries, fewer connections
- Automatic (secure) transmission: taking the pain out of origin connection security
- Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance
- Introducing SSL/TLS Recommender